In my Biotechnology class we have been reviewing the relatively simple structure of DNA. We also discussed the fact that Watson and Crick stole the ideas of Rosalind Franklin in order to make this double helix structure of Deoxyribose nucleic acid. Do you think they deserve all of the credit?

Maybe not, but they do derserve credit for affirming the panspermia theory that extraterrestrials seeded life here on Earth and modern scientists are now confirming that there traces in human DNA that have extraterrestrial origins.

At 3/8/2011 5:43:09 PM, GeoLaureate8 wrote:Maybe not, but they do derserve credit for affirming the panspermia theory that extraterrestrials seeded life here on Earth and modern scientists are now confirming that there traces in human DNA that have extraterrestrial origins.

When you say extraterrestrials, do you mean intelligent life, or do you simply mean not from Earth?

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At 3/8/2011 5:43:09 PM, GeoLaureate8 wrote:Maybe not, but they do derserve credit for affirming the panspermia theory that extraterrestrials seeded life here on Earth and modern scientists are now confirming that there traces in human DNA that have extraterrestrial origins.

When you say extraterrestrials, do you mean intelligent life, or do you simply mean not from Earth?

Both. But "extraterrestrial" merely means "not from Earth" so they're not all necessarily intelligent.

At 3/8/2011 5:43:09 PM, GeoLaureate8 wrote:Maybe not, but they do derserve credit for affirming the panspermia theory that extraterrestrials seeded life here on Earth and modern scientists are now confirming that there traces in human DNA that have extraterrestrial origins.

When you say extraterrestrials, do you mean intelligent life, or do you simply mean not from Earth?

Both. But "extraterrestrial" merely means "not from Earth" so they're not all necessarily intelligent.

I know, I just wanted to know if you were making the leap to assume that it was intelligent life that is the cause of panspermia.

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At 3/8/2011 5:29:38 PM, THE_OPINIONATOR wrote:In my Biotechnology class we have been reviewing the relatively simple structure of DNA. We also discussed the fact that Watson and Crick stole the ideas of Rosalind Franklin in order to make this double helix structure of Deoxyribose nucleic acid. Do you think they deserve all of the credit?

In all do fairness, they would've shared the Nobel Prize with her had she not been dead when the Nobel Prize was given out. However, it's not some great secret that her ideas were very important in their discovery. It was still an amazing revolutionary work, and even thought her work was critical to its success, Watson and Crick still played a role in making the discovery.

At 3/8/2011 5:29:38 PM, THE_OPINIONATOR wrote:In my Biotechnology class we have been reviewing the relatively simple structure of DNA. We also discussed the fact that Watson and Crick stole the ideas of Rosalind Franklin in order to make this double helix structure of Deoxyribose nucleic acid. Do you think they deserve all of the credit?

You should read the short paperback 'The Double Helix by James Watson', great read, I remember reading it back in college. Watson was not at all who you would have thought. He was as I recall an ecology major or something similar, only got into looking into DNA because of some grant money available, and he spent some of it going down to Italy and skiiing and chasing women. No kidding, it is in the book.

And yeah, their assistant Franklin did most of the got and got minimal credit.

At 3/8/2011 5:43:09 PM, GeoLaureate8 wrote:Maybe not, but they do derserve credit for affirming the panspermia theory that extraterrestrials seeded life here on Earth and modern scientists are now confirming that there traces in human DNA that have extraterrestrial origins.

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only crick endorsed panspermia. and do you have a basis for claiming that portions of DNA have extraterrestrial origins? last i heard it was just precursor molecules such as amino acids or nucleotides... hardly supports the theory that earth was "seeded"

as for Rosalind Franklin, she is frequently credited in bio classes, but as someone mentioned she was dead at the time the nobel prize was given to the so she couldn't recieve it. and although she worked very hard on the project, and it was actually her data that allowed them to crack it, she was adamant that it was NOT a double helix. lol. weird!

Stealing credit isn't uncommon in science. My old bio proff used to tell me that when he was workingon his own project, he had to publish it under HIS professors name, and even though he did all the work, basically most of the credit went to his professor.